Leobersdorf is a town in the Baden district of Lower Austria

Lower Austria

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, Austria

Austria

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Early settlements

First indices of settlement in the area date back to 3000 BC.

Around 350 BC celtic settlers found Noricum

Noricum

Noricum, in ancient geography, was a Celtic kingdom stretching over the area of today's Austria and a part of Slovenia. It became a province of the Roman Empire...

. From their word Tristis, which means rushing or dangerous, derived the name for the river Triesting

Triesting

The Triesting is a river in the southeastern part of the Vienna Woods. It discharges into the smaller Schwechat at Achau and is part of the catchment area of the River Danube. It has a length of 60 km....

which flows through Leobersdorf.

About 15 a.d. Noricum was taken peacefully by the Romans. Most probably they built a watchtower where now the church is standing.

Name

Leobersdorf was first named in the Bayrische Traditionsbücher (Bavarian Traditionbooks) as Liubetsendorf around 1165 / 1174. This name possibly derives from the old-slavic name Ljubac or the celtic word Lewer or Loben, which means Border- or Gravehill.

The name changed over time. In 1311 it was Lewbesdorf, 1350 Leubesdorf and finally, 1588, Leobersdorf.

Famous people

Ing. Viktor Kaplan

Viktor Kaplan

Viktor Kaplan was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine.-Life:Kaplan was born in Mürzzuschlag, Austria into a railroad worker's family. He graduated from high school in Vienna in 1895, after which he attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied civil...

 worked at the Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik from 1901 to 1903 and developed his idea of the Kaplan turbine

Kaplan turbine

The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by the Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to achieve efficiency over a wide range of flow and...

 there.

External links

• http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&zoom=7&mapdata=ydFWR9lOLF2TdSsh%2b5LFQIawyXO5nC3uAVUXtyTlaY%2fxjbznPQ%2baPupm6wJzWk9cnxlfmV6V91cK17wikcwNnOG7OSeur2IilLwVWcEgxmxk09pOG4uGWKLKQpd08f8xFW98kVFRjEEp7uxA2GMuuuQYpdKomxzjY%2ficNcOfQxY1YlANO9lUNQdcvdZURF4wkWz2DM%2fCG3j9%2bInJWGHdevD%2bUTqxSofNvClCy1Hw8a6gSEdy4N9E6TO5I1P%2fLpGsXsg%2f5lWN1YqMyZU4QzGYJlCbSdta49XQixs58Steavgbr7k%2bgh67Y4PZxglADf3n7p4yofaEWU7YwsTeFxKe3A%3d%3dLeobersdorf @ MapQuest] Where to find Leobersdorf on a map
• Leobersdorf.at Homepage
  Homepage
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  for Leobersdorf (German only)
• Kaplan turbine (German)
• Kaplan turbine (English)
• Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik AG